Howard Lane (1852-1924) of Birmingham, consulting engineer to Messrs. S. Walker, Ltd., hydraulic and general engineering contractors, of Fazeley Street, Birmingham.
1852 Born in Leek Wooton, Warwickshire[1]
1887 In partnership as Howard Lane and Co, engineers and contractors
1891 Howard Lane 38, civil engineer, lived in Edgbaston with Ethel F Lane 31[2]
1900 of 484, Corporation Street, Birmingham. Director of Hydro-Pneumatic Traction Syndicate, Ltd.
Developed a "stretch tester" for testing gas cylinders that was made available by the Hydro-Kinetic Engineering Syndicate Ltd[3]
1901 Howard Lane 48, consulting mechanical engineer, lived in Erdington with Ethel Lane 40[4]
1903 Started to develop an interest in production of hydrogen
1908 Engineer, of 125 Edmund St., Birmingham; T.A. "Pneumatics"[5]
1911 Howard Lane 58, consulting engineer, lived in Rochester Row, Westminster, with Ethel Florence Lane 51[6]
1917 Demonstrated an experimental plant for hydrogenating oils in order to harden them that was in use at The Laboratory, Ashford, Middx[7]
1924 Died in Windsor district[8]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ BMD
- ↑ 1891 census
- ↑ The Engineer 1900/06/01
- ↑ 1901 census
- ↑ Commercial directory
- ↑ 1911 census
- ↑ The Engineer 1917/06/08
- ↑ BMD